Decent Sampler isn’t exactly recent news, but we wanted to highlight the excellent work done by creator Dave Hilowitz and share it with anyone who hasn’t seen it yet. If you don’t know, Decent Sampler is a sample player that plays libraries in the DecentSampler format (dspreset or dslibrary). You can grab the plugin for…

It’s time to announce the winner of last month’s crossword competition. Read on to see if you’ve won a copy of The Secrets Of Dance Music Production. We are happy to announce that we have now chosen January’s crossword winner. Thank you to everyone who took part. It wasn’t meant to be easy, but we…

We round up the best places to learn electronic music online. Learning how to produce music has never been easier. That’s not to say it’s easy. It’s possible that it’s harder than ever to get noticed with the post Millenium explosion of resources from free DAWs to free sounds. Plus there’s a bucketload of free…

Orange Tree Samples has released Evolution Django Jazz, a acoustic jazz guitar sample library powered by Native Instruments’ Kontakt Player. They say: Evolution… Read More Read the full story

Patchpool has released Singing Bowls & Friends another sound library from its Falcon Singles-series. It multi-sampled singing bowls of various sizes, crystal and glass bowls, meditative/cinematic… Read More Read the full story

Ableton has announced that the free Ableton Live 11.1 update is now available. This update adds native support for Apple computers running on the M1 Silicon chip. This release… Read More Read the full story

Toontrack has updated Superior Drummer to v3.2.8, featuring the following bug fixes: General: MIDI files dragged out from SD3 no longer contain a key signature, so no… Read More Read the full story